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While Crowd Waits, Mandela Plays With Babies

by Merle Guttmann Category: People Issue No. 173

Cutting from the Sunday Tribune, February 1990

Nelson Mandela’s love of children and attention to them were beautifully illustrated in an incident with Desmond Woolf’s (my first cousin) and Vanessa Watson's (his partner) baby twins on the day of Mandela’s release from prison.

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Merle Guttmann was born and educated in Zimbabwe and immigrated to Israel in 1962. She is well-known in Israeli Anglophone circles and Israel’s social and volunteer fields. A social planner, ...
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